Celebrated cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry talks with Steve Paulson about her latest book. Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, “What It is” reflects Barry’s belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. (via 091122B Channeling Creativity)
hometown via apatosaurus:fouroneoh: Photo by peacecharade
“From a student paper about Alexander Hamilton:
“Isn’t it the American Dream, that the boy with nothing can grow up to be the oppressor.”
— Quote of the Day [via] (via anthropophagous) (via unburyingthelead)
Installation in the Printed matter shop window from a while ago. thirdstitch
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“At my university there was a group called the League Against Homosexuals. Their motto, spread on leaflets across campus, was “Queers don’t produce, they seduce.” I adopted their credo as my own in the most public way possible.” — I Hate Straights – Bash Back, Fags. [via] (via anthropophagous)
Mark 8:1-8 (New Revised Standard Edition)
1 During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,
2 “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.
3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.”
4 His disciples answered, “But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?”
5 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.
6 He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and they did so.
7 They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them.
8 The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
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Religion: Christianity
Reflection: Unitarian Universalists (generally) don’t talk a whole lot about Jesus, and we certainly don’t talk much about the miracles of Jesus because it’s (generally) not our thing. But I love this story because of an interpretation I heard once. The interpretation goes like this: so Jesus hands out the bread and the people at the front take it and look behind them at all the people waiting. “I’m not that hungry,” says a man in the crowd to himself, and passes his portion along. “Someone else needs this more than I do,” says a woman in the crowd to herself, and passes his portion along. “Being with each other is enough for me,” says a child in the crowd, and passes his portion along. The bread makes its way through the crowd and everyone takes exactly what they need. In the end, the bread that is left is the bread that went in. We are fed by more than bread.
I love the idea of the miracle happening within the people, as inspired by Jesus, as opposed to the idea that the miracle was that Jesus manufactured so much bread that everyone had a whole loaf to themselves, which is sometimes the characterization of this story. I want to live in a world where we the people can make miraculous things happen.
Question: What feeds you other than food?
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Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.
-Annie Dillard
“Same sex marriage should not be put on the ballot for a vote. Just like abortion should not be on the ballot for a vote. Just like protections for trans people should not be on the ballot for a vote. Because the majority is going to vote to protect its interests, for the most part, and that means that these measures are going to fail. And once a vote has gone through, it’s going to be harder to repeal, because of this whole “will of the people” argument that will get hauled out to defend inequality.” — We’re Doing This Wrong [via] (via anthropophagous)